Dana White's $17M Sphere Card, Nate Diaz's Path to the UFC, and Was Fury-Ngannou Fixed?
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Chael Sonnen
4.6 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2024
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
I've got a MEGA-episode for you all today! In this special program, I talk about Dana White's MASSIVE UFC 306 expenses, Michael Chandler making Dustin Poirier mad, and I give you my response to Joe Pyfer's criticism of MMA fans. Plus, I lay out Nate Diaz's path back to the UFC, I wonder whether Israel Adesanya will ever be the same, and I even talk about Adesanya's old friend, Darren Till. In addition to getting you up to date on the Friendly Hacker, I also weigh in on something Joe Rogan said about the Tyson Fury vs. Francis Ngannou fight.
The following time codes are approximate:
- Dana White's $17M bill (00:00)
- Dustin Poirier responds to Michael Chandler (10:47)
- The thing Joe Pyfer needs to learn (22:51)
- How will Israel Adesanya look at UFC 305? (38:03)
- Darren Till should stop fighting (47:43)
- Getting Nate Diaz back to UFC (58:31)
- Was Tyson Fury vs. Francis Ngannou fixed? (01:07:04)
- The Friendly Hacker update (01:15:25)
- Good guy vs. bad guy (01:22:10)
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| 0:00.0 | What's happening guys? Happy Friday and thank you for joining another special episode of your welcome. |
| 0:13.4 | You know, we got a lot to dig into on today's episode. |
| 0:16.4 | I'm going to give you an update on a friendly hacker. |
| 0:19.6 | Plus, I got some not so friendly advice for Darren Till and I'm going to discuss |
| 0:24.3 | Nate Diaz's other path to the UFC. But before we get to all that, let's start with |
| 0:30.0 | this. Dana White, you son of a gun, he did it again. |
| 0:40.1 | He did it again. |
| 0:41.1 | It was right in front of me and I knew something was happening here, by the way, I knew something was going on. |
| 0:47.0 | I didn't know what it was, it was just right in front of me. The sphere. |
| 0:51.0 | I'm gonna go to the sphere. |
| 0:54.0 | Already has paid $16 million in buying the necessary equipment from a production |
| 1:00.4 | standpoint. It is such an undertaking that he will never be coming back. |
| 1:07.0 | All right. |
| 1:10.0 | So I had a hard time with it. |
| 1:12.0 | I'm like, man, you're already 16 million like he sounded like he wasn't done he already 60 million. |
| 1:16.4 | I'm going can you just do that one time like can you justify doing that one time is this equipment that you bring to this fear |
| 1:23.2 | but then you can take other places I mean I just had a lot of questions about that I |
| 1:26.7 | had a lot of questions about that number and why are we so set that it's one time |
| 1:33.6 | there's never been a venue that Dana's going to go out, |
| 1:35.6 | so it's one time. |
| 1:36.2 | Madison Square Garden by the Mecca. |
| 1:38.2 | We're going there one time. |
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